Sentence examples for an abstract entity from inspiring English sources

He moved away from the idea of music as an abstract entity towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical with his symphonic poems.

"It will force me to continue my unwanted professional association with God, an abstract entity who has given me nothing but discomfort and agita.

The government does not cut an abstract entity called "government spending" but numerous spending programs, from veterans' benefits and homeland security to Medicare and Medicaid.

"Right now, it's just so much a symbol of this war on an abstract entity called terrorism that it's hard to see past that to what this may actually mean for Western civilization," Mr. Spiegelman said.

It is an abstract entity.

Is it the relation of consequence, construed as an abstract entity?

He formalized seek not as a relation between two individuals, but as a relation between an individual and a more abstract entity, see Section 2.2.

A genome reference sequence is a model because it is, first, "an idealized, abstract entity constructed from the natural organism" and, second, "'model' is used to indicate a promissory note about this organism providing a framework for pursuing explanatory questions and ultimately serving as a prototype for understanding more complex organisms" (Ankeny 2000, p. S267).

To the early geneticists, a 'gene' was a very abstract entity.

While at the top end of society – for the gated 1%, with their offshore accounts and property portfolios – money has become physically unmoored from "domicile", so in the middle and at the bottom it has come to seem an increasingly abstract entity even as there is less of it to go around.

Rudner brought up the type-token distinction in the context of a critique of Lewis's (1946) idea that a work of art is a contextualized abstract entity.